How to Keep Your Resume on Target

Is your resume too long? Is it unfocused? Does it include unnecessary material? If you answer yes to any of these questions, it’s time to act.

Here’s some good advice from Cheryl Simpson, writing for Careerealism, who offers ten tips for keeping your resume on target:

Say more with less — “Cut out words that aren’t needed and delete words that are repeated.”

Leverage action verbs — “It may be accurate to say you wrote the company’s five-year plan, for example, but it’s more powerful to say that you strategized, authored, and executed the company’s first-ever five-year plan.”